American Language Quotes
Collection of top 29 famous quotes about American Language
American Language Quotes & Sayings
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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
— Rudyard Kipling
There is a core simplicity to the English language and its American variant, but it's a slippery core.
— Stephen King
Most American and European scholars believe that the Chinese speak their languages, only that they "talk" in Chinese.
— Thorsten J. Pattberg
There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.
— H.L. Mencken
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
— James F. Cooper
Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art' ... For Indians, everything is art ... therefore needs no name.
— Jamake Highwater
The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.
— Salvador De Madariaga
The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
— William Carlos Williams
American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.
— Henry Adams
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.
— Eiza Gonzalez
I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
— I. King Jordan
If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.
— Ty Pennington
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.
— Alan Siegel
When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.
— Patrick Henry
My Japanese isn't much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.
— Gil Asakawa
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
— Mignon McLaughlin
When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
— Finley Peter Dunne
To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
The "coffee break" - as a phrase and concept - was invented in 1952 by the Pan American Coffee Bureau. It quickly became a part of the language, as
— Mark Pendergrast
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.
— Henry Ford
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
— Diane Wakoski
I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.
— Deion Sanders
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
— Tommy Lee Jones
The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.
— Frank Church